Amazon UK lists the cheapest total price including shipping, and is even clever enough to know if you get Prime discounts and take them into account when ranking offers. I'm surprised the US site doesn't do it.

The reason some items get down to the penny level is that sellers use software to automatically set prices at or a little lower than the lowest offer on that item. They put in their fixed shipping cost and let the software set the sale price. They will often have thousands, or even tens of thousands of items so individually pricing them is out of the question, and they are more concerned with turnover so are happy to set a minimum of 1p and maybe make a little on shipping. Being cheapest gets them the sale and the churn without having to carefully figure out which items are valuable and which are not.

That also means that sometimes rare items will be extremely expensive, where as your local used book/CD shop might have them cheap because they just price all paperbacks/textbooks/albums the same.

Tell me, what does donkey meat taste like? I've only ever had horse.

In Wave you can actually report traffic jams manually via an icon. The information updates fairly quickly with other users once your account is established, which basically means you have a few miles on it. They don't seem to do too much to validate the information, rather just waiting for other data to contradict it.

In other words, you can lie easily and your lies propagate fast. It is of little practical use to motorists but residents might find that marking their roads as being at a standstill during rush hour has an effect. No need to even go outside, after all a standstill means 0 MPH.

Apple chips look good on paper, but when built into actual products the performance isn't anything special. Synthetic benchmarks are okay but real world performance tends to be fairly average, being beaten out by devices costing less than half or one third as much like the Nexus 5 or OnePlus One.

Take a look at some comparison videos on YouTube. Apps load about the same or a little slower, in-app performance is about the same.

Memory performance may be great, but there's only 1GB of it. It really shows when multi-tasking and switching around apps. They also seem to use fairly average flash memory, which doesn't help when you are forced to purge lots of stuff from memory and then re-load it. Phones costing a fraction as much have 3GB as standard these days.

Apple always tout battery life as a big thing, but actually my OnePlus One goes for four or five days of moderate use (web, email, QQ/handouts/SMS messaging, YouTube, camera, Now, a few other apps) on a charge. That's with GPS, wifi, NFC and Bluetooth on of course, and background sync enabled in everything.

It all looks wonderful on paper, but the end product is very very average. Not terrible or anything, just nothing special and really, really expensive.

You must be new here, complaining about TFA is the reason most of us come to Slashdot...

Seriously though, the lack of a filter option and the fact that any worthwhile content is invariable lost in wall of textual diarrhoea are quite annoying. If Bennett could learn to condense his ideas down by about 95% and get his own editor tag so he can be filtered out easily people wouldn't mind for the most part.

This is supposed to be "news for nerds", not Bennett's personal blog. Unless you are going to argue that posts about ponies and restaurant reviews would be fine too because, hay, you can just skip over them and let others comment, then complaints about content are valid. This isn't Reddit, the content is supposed to be filtered and on-topic, otherwise why not just go to Reddit or any number of other sites that cater for low quality editorials?

London is quite good, but outside the capital you get a lot of shitty cabs. Having said that, even in Japan where the cars are always immaculately clean, the drivers courteous and polite and the service generally top notch they still drive like lunatics. I was surprised to see a Nissan GTR being used as a taxi until I realized the guy used it to prevent boredom shuttling people between stops.

Socioeconomic imbalance is a major cause of terrorism. In Afghanistan the Taliban pays more than most other available work, as does growing poppies. Low paid corruptible officials allow it to happen.

In developed nations young people with few prospects and little engagement in society due to their economic status are more easily radicalised and attracted to joining foreign jihad. For them it's a choice between unemployment/McJobs for 45 years or doing something that at least seems to have meaning, even if it is extremely misguided.

Actors can use copyright to control their image. Otherwise there would be no need to pay Schwarzenegger for the CGI versions of him in the next Terminator movie. When an actor plays a role in a film they sign a release allowing use of their image in that film, but the argument here is that the contract was misleading as to the nature of the film and thus invalid, making the user of her image copyright infringement.

It would be like Arnold agreeing to be in the Terminator 5 or whatever it's called, and then the directors decide to make it a porno with his CGI image and his voice acting used out of context. In that case the contract for an action movie would be invalid and he could use copyright to protect his image,

No thanks, I'll take the EU model where people are in charge of society and companies must play by their rules if they want access to their highly profitable market. Otherwise the companies can fuck off, because there are plenty of others who will provide us with the things we need and want and do it within the rules we decided on.

What you are talking about is the opposite of freedom, it's the tyranny of powerful corporations and the rich to dominate the rest of us. These guys knew the deal when they developed this drug, we gave them special protection in return for their investment and it made them vast sums of money. Now the rules say that the patent expires and we get generics, and if they try to circumvent the spirit of the law they will rightly be slapped down.

Going back in the thread. If you are not supporting the entire argument you need to specify that in your reply, especially since this is a fairly common tactic.

Closing the service was a fairly extreme option. Google don't make any money directly because they don't have ads on the site... So turn on the ads for Spanish users. They make money by driving users to their other services too.

But instead of negotiating or even trying to compromise they just took their ball and left.

Seems like that would generate a lot of animosity against really smart kids.

We don't need draconian measures, and in fact fixing this problem will improve quality of life for most of us. Efficiency (same result for less energy) is cheaper than adding more capacity, and doesn't pollute.

Climate change is an on-going process. More over, this is far too short a time scale to draw conclusions. Every year the weather doesn't meet some prediction we get the deniers screaming blue murder about it, but none of that disproves the long term trend.

So now it's a straw man attack. Pick the most extreme example and use it to discredit the vast majority of moderates who think we should address this problem.